News from 2006
A WORK BY BARBEAU IN THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF THE ART REACH PROGRAMME AT THE ART GALLERY OF NOVA SCOTIA.
02/08/2006 to 06/08/2006
On February 8th, the Art Gallery of nova Scotia inaugurated its new program ” Art Reach ” at the Queen County Museum of Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Developed in association with the Ministry of Education of Nova Scotia by the educational Services of the museum, this program of exhibitions and related activities aims at promoting the art in schools and in the distant communities. It addresses all the age groups and not only the school clientele. This first exhibition includes prints coming from donations of the Bank of works of art of the Canada council for the arts and include one of Marcel Barbeau’s work.
STAY IN MONTREAL
05/05/2006 to 28/05/2006
Back in Montreal May 3rd, Barbeau took this trip to see his family and friends in Quebec. As in 2005, Barbeau moved to Château Saint-Ambroise along the Lachine Canal, which became his home base in Montreal. Enchanted by the light of the loft facing the canal, he started there a new pictorial production based on his visual souvernirs of his train trip across Canada. Echoing the ancient tradition of the opening, he gathered some friends and collectors to his studio on May 25 to present ten recent paintings.
EXCLUSIVE PHOTO-REPORTAGE ON BARBEAU IN MAISON D’AUJOURD’HUI
03/05/2006
Quebecer magazine “Maison d’aujourd’hui” published in its issue of Spring 2006 a wonderful article of 5 pages on Marcel Barbeau. You will read an intelligent and sensitive text by the philosopher and art critic Carolle Gagnon, accompanied by a beautiful photo-report of Francis Guszek on the residence of the artist in the Paris suburbs.
BRIEF STOP IN TORONTO ON THE WAY TO MONTREAL
29/04/2006 05/05/2006
Author :Shell, Dick
Date : 30/04/2006
Philosopher and semiologist Carolle Gagnon with her friends, artist Marcel Barbeau and art historian Ninon Gauthier at their recent trip to Toronto from April 29 toi Mai 3. Photo Dick Shell.© Dick Shell
A new stop in Toronto from April 29 to May 3, offered Marcel Barbeau and his partner other joyous reunions with friends like the philosopher and art critic Carolle Gagnon and his companion Dick Shell. They rediscovered with them the Canadian metropolis, metamorphosed since their last visit in May 2002, and made a brief tour of the galleries.
SHORT VISIT OF THE PRAIRIES
26/04/2006 to 05/03/2006
Auteur :Gauthier Ninon
Date : 27/04/2006
Barbeau observant les paysages des Prairies de sa cabine.
Barbeau used his stop in Alberta to see friends and meet professionals in the art, such as Dr. Ann Davis, director of the Gallery Nickle and documentaries resourse from the University of Calgary and Professor Stephen Harris of the University Alberta.
BARBEAU RETURNING FROM VANCOUVER ON VIA RAIL
23/04/2006 to 05/03/2006
Auteur :Gauthier Ninon
Date : 23/04/2006
Marcel Barbeau admirant le paysage des Rocheuses de la voiture Park de VIA Rail pour laquelle il peignit sa mural “Laurentides” “1988-1989”
From April 21 to May 3, Marcel Barbeau traveled by train with VIA Rail. Author of one of fifteen murals commissioned by VIA Rail to great Canadian artists as part of the renovation of the cars by the designer Madeleine Arbour, Marcel Barbeau comfortably traveled aboard a VIA train to cross the Canada returned from his exhibition at the Elliott Louis Gallery (Vancouver). The train ticket Vancouver – Montreal was graciously offered to the artist by VIA Rail. It allowed him to travel comfortably and to stop in major Canadian cities along the way to visit the various collections where his paintings are preserved and displayed.
A LECTURE ABOUT MARCEL BARBEAU IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ARTIST’S EXHIBITION AT ELLIOTT GALLERY IN VANCOUVER
04/04/2006
On the occasion of the Marcel Barbeau’s exhibition at the Elliott Louis Gallery, the historian and sociologist of art Ninon Gauthier gave a lecture in prelude of the opening of the exhibition and the performance Jocelyne Montpetit.
Dr. Gauthier has stressed the interdisciplinary dimension of the work of Marcel Barbeau as part of a guided tour of the exhibition. It showed how Barbeau has consistently developed his art through intimate connections with poetry, dance and music. She also highlighted the originality of its interdisciplinary approach and its relationship with the baroque dimension of his work in painting, drawing and sculpture. This openness to other arts favor aesthetic exploration together with his pure classical formal requirement.
JOCELYNE MONTPETIT DANCES WITH BARBEAU’S PAINTINGS AT THE OPENING OF THE ARTIST’S EXHIBITION
04/04/2006
Auteur :Gauthier Ninon
Date : 04/06/2006
Performance danse peinture de Jocelyne Montpetit dans le cadre du vernissage de l’exposition “Vertiginous limits” à la galerie Elliott Louis, Vancouver 6 avril 2006. Le département d’arts visuels, d’histoire et théorie de l’art a produit une vidéo de l’événement.Photo Ninon Gauthier. © Ninon Gauthier et ADAGP – Paris pour Marcel Barbeau.
To mark the opening of Marcel Barbeau’s exhibition (Vertiginous limits) at the Elliott Louis Gallery in Vancouver on April 6, the great dancer and choreographer Jocelyne Montpetit came specially from Rome, where she is currently working to present an outstanding performance in relation to works by Marcel Barbeau exposed to the Elliott Louis Gallery.
CAQ SUPPORTS BARBEAU’S EXHIBTION IN VANCOUVER
04/04/2006 to 30/04/2006
The Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec grant a scholarship of $ 1,500 to Marcel Barbeau to present its next exhibition “Vertiginous Limits” at the Elliott Louis Gallery in Vancouver. CALQ also provided a grant for the same amount to the dancer and choreographer Jocelyne Montpetit, Barbeau partner in this project. It will present a dance performance in relation to the exhibition on the occasion of the opening 6 April 2006 This double grant will allow two artists to go in Vancouver to hold this event.
Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec
MARCEL BARBEAU’S RETURN TO VANCOUVER: A MAJOR EXHIBITION AT THE ELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY
04/04/2006 to 30/04/2006
Author :Gauthier Ninon
Date : 04/04/2006
Ted Lederer and Marcel Barbeau talking about the details of the opening of the exhibition “Marcel Barbeau vertiginous limits.© Photo Ninon Gauthier.
From 6 to 30 April 2006, the Elliott Louis Gallery in Vancouver presented a major exhibition of 45 works by Marcel Barbeau. Although he lived in Vancouver, Barbeau has little exposure in the West. This exhibition has helped Britanico – Colombian public to become more familiar with the work of this Canadian master of abstraction.
Marcel Barbeau : Vertiginious Limits
TWO MAJOR WORKS BY MARCEL BARBEAU IN THE EXHIBITION “ART AND SOCIETY IN CANADA 1913-1950”
17/03/2006 to 27/03/2008
Auteur :Chambers, Jack pour Galerie Dresdnere, Toronto
Date : 11/04/1976
Huile et émail sur panneau, 56 x 560 cm, 1946. Photo Yvan Boulerice, circa 1976. Collection du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, provenant de la collection Madeleine Arbour. Jack Chambers, trensmise aimablement pas la Galerie Dresnere. © ADAGP – Paris pour Marcel Barbeau.
From March 17th, 2006 to March 2008, the National Gallery of Canada will circulate forty works from its collection across the country within the framework of a traveling exhibition addressing the role of art in Canadian society between 1913 and 1950. This exhibition, organised by Charles Hill, the Curator of Canadian Art at the National Gallery, will allow for a comparison of the ideals of three generations of Canadian artists through their works; the Group of Seven, the “partisans of Social Realism” and the members of the Automatiste movement.
A major figure in twentieth century Canadian art, Marcel Barbeau will be represented by two of his most revolutionary works from 1946, “Virgin Forest”, a painting on wood panel from the collection of Madeleine Arbour, and a painting on unprimed hemp originating from the collection of the painter Jean-Paul Mousseau with whom Marcel Barbeau exchanged this painting in 1946. They are amongst the very first entirely abstract paintings that Barbeau produced in the studio on Resther street that he occupied throughout the winter of 1945-46. They distinguish themselves by the violence of their techniques and marks that clearly express the revolutionary nature of the Automatiste movement, just as it is revealed in their experimental style: notably by the use of “vulgar” materials such as jute and enamel, the multiplication of pictorial techniques in one work such as dripping and scraping, and the almost “all-over” apprehension of surfaces. Because of their fragile nature, these works are rarely circulated. It will therefore be an exceptional occasion for Western Canadian art connoisseurs to view them.
The exhibition will open March 17th at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary where it will be presented until June 4th. Subsequently, it will be on display at the Yukon Art Center from March 22nd to May 13th, 2007, at the McMicheal Canadian Art Collection in the Toronto area from June 29th to September 23rd and finally at the Kamloops Art Gallery in British-Columbia form January to March 2008.
Within the framework of this exhibition, the Glenbow Art Gallery with the support of The Alliance Francaise will present a conference on …Riopelle (?) on April 20th by Dr. Francois-Marc Gagnon, the uncontested specialist on the work of Paul-Emile Borduas and the Automatiste movement. For more information concerning the location and time of this conference, consult the museum’s web site at http://www.glenbow.org.
For additional information about the exhibition, contact the participating institutions:
National Gallery: [email protected]
Glenbow Museum: Tanis Short at [email protected]
Yukon Art Center: Scott Marsden at [email protected] or by telephone 667-8485
McMicheal Art Collections: Stephen Weir, Publicist at [email protected] [email protected]
Kamloops Art Gallery: Kim Galloway at [email protected]
Christine Lasalle, National Gallery coordinator for this project, or Yves Theoret Marketing and communications: [email protected]
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